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26.13.2 Limitations and other considerations 
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Setting up a given processor to trap IEEE-754 floating point
errors currently requires custom code on a per-architecture basis.
You may have to modify <tt class="module">fpectl</tt> to control your particular hardware.

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Conversion of an IEEE-754 exception to a Python exception requires
that the wrapper macros <code>PyFPE_START_PROTECT</code> and
<code>PyFPE_END_PROTECT</code> be inserted into your code in an appropriate
fashion.  Python itself has been modified to support the
<tt class="module">fpectl</tt> module, but many other codes of interest to numerical
analysts have not.

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The <tt class="module">fpectl</tt> module is not thread-safe.

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  <div class="seetext"><p>Some files in the source distribution may be interesting in
           learning more about how this module operates.
           The include file <span class="file">Include/pyfpe.h</span> discusses the
           implementation of this module at some length.
           <span class="file">Modules/fpetestmodule.c</span> gives several examples of
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           Many additional examples can be found in
           <span class="file">Objects/floatobject.c</span>.</p></div>
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